Author: Walt Zlotow

Job 1 for any president is not to spew personal insults at world leaders to inflame delicate issues of war and peace.

At a campaign stop Wednesday, Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” (Son of a Bitch). Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was much more circumspect in pushing back, saying, “Such boorish statements from the mouth of a US leader are hardly capable of hurting the head of another country in any way, much less President Putin. But it is a great shame for the country (US) itself,”

Biden knows better. He made that scurrilous remark to ramp up support for his reelection with voters who have largely abandoned him on his lost proxy war against Russia destroying Ukraine, and his enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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Between 2007, and February 24, 2022, former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden floated NATO membership to Ukraine. This was in violation of George H.W. Bush’s 1991 promise not to expand NATO eastward toward Russia.

Sensible diplomats and historians scolded the US that such a move east was a red line of provocation that would inevitably result in military Russian pushback. They compared it with JFK’s willingness to start nuclear war with Russia to prevent installation of Russian missiles just 90 miles from the US in Cuba.

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The Biden administration, supported by its sycophantic corporate media, became hyperbolic upon hearing of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison last week. President Biden declared “Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. Putin is responsible.”

The “tell” Biden used by every governmental prevaricator is “Make no mistake,” which translates to “Don’t dare disbelieve me.” Dick Cheney made that tell the foundation for his lying America into attacking Iraq in 2003. Regarding Navalny, Cheney would be proud of Biden.

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No surprise President Biden cast his third veto in the UN Security Council to prevent a full, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Biden’s depraved support of Israeli genocide in Gaza has no limits. Over 25,000 tons of US weapons have contributed to over 100,000 deaths and injuries, displacement of nearly 2,000,000 Palestinians and destruction of nearly all medical, educational and cultural institutions. The appropriate word for all that? Genocide.

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Richard C. Longworth, in his Chicago Tribune op-ed “Is America Still the Indispensable Nation?” ponders whether America will remain the world’s indispensable nation much longer.

His concern is that for the first time in the half century of polling by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, a majority of Republicans think the US should stay out of world affairs. Longworth adds it is reinforced by GOP leadership which is jeopardizing continued US funding of Ukraine’s war against Russia. The resulting US pullback from world dominance, Longworth frets, will produce “global anarchy, a power vacuum drawing in any number of nations, many of them nuclear-armed.”

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John Hewko’s Chicago Tribune op-ed “With Vladimir Putin interview, Tucker Carlson Proves To Be the Walter Duranty of Our Time” is an unfortunate attack on free, responsible journalism.

Those of us in the peace community welcomed Tucker Carlson’s lengthy interview with Russian President Putin. It was a greatly needed counterpoint to US coverage of the Russo-Ukraine war which prohibits any information which might crack open America’s one sided war narrative. All concerned with the endless war destroying Ukraine and US dominance in Europe along with it, would benefit from obtaining the Russian perspective.

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